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It's the number of errors and total number of reports for the period.
In your case, you don't have any problems!<br>
<br>
FYI, POT TEMP is potential temperature. It's basically the result of
taking everyone's temperature and putting them on an even surface
(1000mb). This helps remove non-existant errors that would be caused by
elevation differences. In otherwords, if I'm at 50 degrees and Joe is
10 miles away but 3000 feet higher elevation at 32 degrees, the
potential temperature would still be nearly equal.<br>
<br>
DD is wind direction in degrees.<br>
<br>
I don't have your full report, but it sounds like there may be errors
in the description fields that aren't matching up with the numbers that
are shown. Hopefully someone in the know can take a look at this
further.<br>
<br>
Evan<br>
WFO Springfield, MO<br>
<br>
Alan Batie wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid420FF06D.6090404@batie.org">Tom
Barstow wrote:
<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">12-FEB-2005 Errs CW2967 * 0/42 *
0/42 * 0/42 * 2/42 * 2/42
<br>
<br>
Note that times are in UTC. The values displayed are 'Observed
(error)'
<br>
The error value is 'analysis - observed'.
<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I think the problem is that the description doesn't match the report:
if I remember right, it's more like "the values displayed are
#errs/#num reports, where #errs is determined by comparing your data
with a statistical analysis of neighboring weather stations".
<br>
<br>
In looking at last week's weekly report I received:
<br>
<br>
DATE UTC SITE * ALT * POT TEMP * DEW PNT * DD
* FF
<br>
* (MB) * (DEG F) * (DEG F) * (DEG)
* (KNT)
<br>
06-FEB-2005 Errs CW2408 * * 0/95 * * 2/95
* 2/95
<br>
06-FEB-2005 Week CW2408 * *0.71(1.78)*
*0.27(96.4)* -1.1( 1.6)
<br>
<br>
The "Week" row (assuming it's the same as "Smry" only over a whole
week) is supposed to be "mean(standard deviation)", but if anything, it
looks more like "std dev (mean)".
<br>
<br>
I'm not sure what "POT TEMP" is, but am assuming "DD" is "Degree Days"
as I can't think what else it would be and I seem to recall hearing
that term somewhere. Don't remember what they are though.
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